My original plan in life was to become an international rock megastar.
Unfortunately, nobody understood my art.
After around ten years of playing guitar in failed heavy metal groups, I eventually went to university, as a mature student, to read Third World Studies.
After this also failed to get me anywhere, I started to teach myself programming and eventually won a studentship to take an MSc in Information Technology.

The map below highlights over 120 countries that I have visited so far.
My future travel wish list includes Tibet, Mongolia and Yemen.

My first travel book
Tearing up the Silk Road was published by Garnet Publications in August 2012.
More recently, my second book Voodoo, Slaves and White Man's Graves: West Africa and the End of Days was published via Wicked World.
In the future, I intend to visit many more countries, write a best selling novel, and become an intergalactic time traveller.

Free eBooks

All of these short eBooks are available for free in a variety of formats for use on such eReaders as Kindle, Nook and Sony Touch.
After downloading the books in Kindle, Epub, RTF, PDB or PDF format, they can then be copied over to the eReader of your choice.

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Publications

I've recently been busy with Shadow Trails: Adventures in Dark Tourism
but in the future I intend to write more travel articles and stories for magazines and web sites.
Links to some recent publications are featured below:

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About

My original plan in life was to become an international rock megastar.
Unfortunately, nobody understood my art.
After around ten years of playing guitar in failed heavy metal groups, I eventually went to university, as a mature student,
to take a degree in Third World Studies. After this also failed to get me anywhere,
I started to teach myself to program computers and eventually won a studentship to take an MSc in Information Technology.
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